According to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy of a system can decrease only if useful energy is transferred into the system from outside the system. In a system which is somehow created without an investment of external useful energy, disorder will be at a maximum.
Now let's look at the entire physical universe. The high degree of orderliness in the universe can be made possible only through the transfer of useful energy into the physical universe from outside the physical universe.
Those who are not willing to accept the existence of God or of an "Intelligent Designer" outside the physical universe, are in effect saying that there is no source of such useful energy outside the physical universe. According to them, all energy sources for the orderliness in the universe are inside the universe. This would be a violation of the second law of thermodynamics, and, therefore, contrary to the laws of physics.
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2007-10-31
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